n 2001 - 15 weeks after the attacks on the USA -my wife and I went to NYC with my brother. I was a cop at the time, my wife a dispatcher, and my brother was a cop from a small town in NJ that worked on search and rescue in the days and weeks following Sept 11th.

While planting a rose this evening (top rose of last years Portland Rose Festival that I've been nurturing over the winter), I looked up and was delighted to be amongst cherry blossoms. Sometimes we forget to look up.